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10 Dec 2016 1:41:28am

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And this might sum up the rest of us.. lol!:

'When the life of man lay foul to see and grovelling upon the earth, crushed by the weight of religion, lowering upon mortals with dreadful mien, it was a man of Greece [Epicurus]who dared first to raise his mortal eyes to meet her... Him neither the stories of the gods nor thunderbolts checked, nor the sky with its revengeful roar, but all the more spurred the eager daring of his mind to yearn to be the first to burst through the close-set bolts upon the doors of nature.'